More Evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction

The New York Times today reported that equipment and materials that might have been used by Saddam Hussein in illicit weapons programs have been shipped abroad since the liberation of Iraq. The Times report resulted from a closed door briefing of the United Nations Security Council by its Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMVIC). Demetrius Perricos, acting executive chairman of UNMVIC told the Security Council that equipment and materials bearing tags place by U.N. weapons inspectors had been discovered for sale in countries neighboring Iraq. The “dual use” equipment and materials had commercial applications as well as the potential for use in weapons programs.

Hasn’t the Times insisted of late that the lack of physical evidence means that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Didn’t the Times recently apologize for its journalistic failure to expose the errors in President Bush’s assertion that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to create weapons and was using it? I am confused. If there was no weapons making capacity, and there were no weapons to find, why isn’t the Times, in the aftermath of its mea culpa, exposing the errors that are being fed to the Security Council.